The mothers of a number of martyrs in the Palestinian territories launched a "mothers' cry" campaign, calling for the recovery of the bodies of their martyred sons from the Israeli occupation families, who keep them for years in refrigerators or in graves bearing only numbers.
The episode (16/1/2023) of the program "The Story Remains" shed light on the suffering of the families of the martyrs whose bodies are being held by the Israeli occupation, and listened to the accounts of some of them, as she said that she demanded the bodies of her children to be buried in a proper manner.
Israel has held more than 370 Palestinian martyrs - including children - in refrigerators or graves bearing numbers since 2015. The prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid from the Al-Amari camp in Ramallah - who was martyred last month - is the last of the martyrs whose bodies are withheld.
The number cemeteries date back to the founding of the "State of Israel", and only a few of them were discovered. These cemeteries also contain the bodies of Arab martyrs.
Israel wants the "graveyards of numbers" to be the beginning of suffering, a tool of revenge and punishment for the families of the martyrs and their people, and a card for negotiation and bargaining, in violation of human values and international laws.
The team of the "The Story of the Rest" program tried to reach one of the tombs of the figures, which the Israeli occupation imposes a veil of secrecy and secrecy on, but the team's attempts did not succeed in reaching it.
If the Israeli army obstructs their way, refuses their access, and demands that they return immediately.
The team sought to communicate with the Israeli army to grant it permission to photograph in these cemeteries, and the matter was repeated with the Abu Kabir Israeli Institute of Forensic Medicine, where the bodies of the martyrs are dissected and preserved, and in which there are frequent testimonies about the extraction of organs from their bodies, but all attempts were rejected by the occupation.
The program "The Story of the Rest" followed the path of recovering the body of Mashhour Al-Arouri after a 34-year detention, as the first body to be liberated from the grip of the occupation, and was able to document the moments when the father of the martyr Yusef Abu Jazar received his body after 3 years of being detained by the occupation in a refrigerator.
The "remaining story" was accompanied by the mother of the captive martyr Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, who only demands her right to visit the grave of her son, who the Israeli authorities say is buried in the "Ami Ad" cemetery near the heavily fortified Tiberias, and it is forbidden to approach it, which thwarted the program team's attempts to film Place.
Extract members
The representative of the National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of the Martyrs, Issam Al-Arouri, revealed that the Israeli authorities extracted the organs of the captured martyrs and sold their bodies to medical centers concerned with these matters, and exchanged the members of the captive martyrs by the Abu Kabir Institute for Forensic Medicine in exchange for obtaining medical devices.
The mother of the captive martyr, Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, expressed her deep sorrow over the continued occupation that captured the body of her severe son, in addition to her four children who are currently detained in Israeli prisons. A refrigerator at the Israeli occupation forces.